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Enduring Life: Billboard on U.S. Highway 99 in California.
Family packed in a car, moving to California for a better, more prosperous life.
Cooperative store. Shafter migrant camp. Shafter, California
image of a woman at a migrant camp cooperative store shopping for food/supplies
A Yankee trader in the gold rush; the letters of Franklin A. Buck,
A native of Maine, Franklin Agustus Buck (1826-1909) was working in New York City when he heard of the gold strikes and set out for California in January 1849. A Yankee trader in the gold rush (1930) contains Buck's letters to his sister in Maine.…
California letters of Lucius Fairchild,
Lucius Fairchild (1831-1896) left Madison, Wisconsin, for California in 1849 and remained in the West until 1858. On his return to Wisconsin, Fairchild carved out a remarkable career as a soldier-politician: serving in a Wisconsin regiment in the…
A guide to the golden state from the past to the present California history and culture, tours and trails, recreational facilities : American guide series / / B. Sheer.
Poster for Federal Writers' Project of California advertising "American Guide Series" volume on California, showing hourglass.
Why We Come To Californy
Flora Robertson's poem of why she migrated to California.
Will Neal playing fiddle
Will Neal age 63 - Arvin. Playing since 14 yrs (handwritten on reverse) b) Will Neal...champion fiddler in Arvin Camp. Won many fiddlin' contests. 1940. (typed and attached)
